A poor Bradford team beat an even worse Rhino's side, resting six players was the wrong tactics as the youngsters can't really make that step up at the moment, with Sinfield being absent and Jones Bishop crocked after 20 minutes it was never going to be easy against a team which had nothing to lose and we're playing their cup final.
I'm a firm believer of taking a winning mentality into a cup semi final and it wouldn't have taken much to knock over this Bulls side by bringing in more of the first team. That said I've never seen as many dropped balls in one game by a Leeds team it must have been around 30 times in an 80 minute game. As for Roby.........well we won't go there he was shocking, he gave the Bulls a great deal of latitude with the 10 metres, Gale was probably getting back just the six metres, still you have to beat what's in front of you, the Bulls did that and fair play to them as for Leeds let's hope they're focussing on next week otherwise this week will just be a bigger waste than it turned out to be.

Interesting to think the Coach thought McGuire and Burrow played their nuts off last night.
Fook me if they have an average performance he will be suggesting they become the next England half back pairing and we name a stand after them.

I can only recall McGuire attempting one place kick for Leeds at 1st grade level and it was just to the right of the posts ...... he missed.

He has kicked the odd goal at International level though despite never kicking a two pointer for his club side so he'd have a chance.

The following all could have played their way out of a semi appearance:

Tom Briscoe - on an awful run of form
Ian Kirke - got spannered, spilt the ball a couple of times and hid and was blowing like he'd put in the shift of all shifts. The end is nigh.
Achurch - despite a well taken try was woeful. When the pressure mounted at the end he dropped some tragic ball.
Paul Aiton - 'Mr 2 Steps and pass', not effective in the 'loose' position either. Just slide Burrow back into hooking role.
Danny McGuire - Mr Dropsy

(Away from those JJB put in a shift, think he also played 80 minutes BUT those 2 ridiculous penalties were criminal especially the one that gifted them 2 points.)

Agreed, my main disappointment was the young lads/fringe players not busting a gut to get a place in the semi and also the fact that not one single player backed up any of the breaks from Walters, Singleton or Burrow.

Our next generation were out-enthused by a poor bradford side, despite having a poor night with the ball I think we would have ground out the result a few years ago.

It can only get better and saturday will be very tough without a massive improvement

Hardaker looks as though he just doesn't practice his kicking. His technique also looks wrong.